xviii, 311 pages : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part 1. Privatization: visions, effects, and challenges. Social security privatization: different context, different discourse -- Privatization: more individual choice in social protection -- Africa: implications of privatization measures initiated by international financing organizations -- Part 2. Privatization: an organizing principle for financing social security? The case for funded, individual accounts in pension reform -- Individual accounts versus social insurance: a United States perspective -- Strengthening public pensions with private investment- Canada's approach to privatization pressures -- Part 3. Privatization: a tool for governance? Germany: efficiency and affordability in social security through partial privatization of provision for risks -- Privatization: from panacea to poison pill- the Dutch paradigm -- Healthy markets- sick patients? Effects of recent trends on the health care market -- Social health insurance development in low-income developing countries: new roles for government and nonprofit health insurance organizations in Africa and Asia -- Part 4. The empirical framework: national experiences of privatization in various branches of social security -- The privatization of pensions in Latin America and its impacts on the insured, the economy, and old-age people -- First experiences with the privatization of the Polish pension scheme: a status report -- Austria's discussion on social security privatization: some notes focusing on old-age insurance -- The evolution of public and private insurance in Sweden during the 1990s -- Tunisian health insurance: towards complementarity of public and private sector -- Impact of private sector involvement in health insurance in Uruguay: a status report -- China: from public health insurance to a multi-tiered structure -- Impacts of private sector involvement in health insurance in Indonesia -- Trends in private sector involvement in the delivery of workforce development services in the United States -- Changes in employment services through deregulation -- The privatization of accident compensation in New Zealand -- The advantages of statutory over private employment accident insurance: the example of Germany -- The Danish experience with privatization: new ways of solving tasks

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